Posts By Matthew Turner
Monster Movie Monday: The Wasp Woman (1959)
April 10, 2023 | Matthew TurnerRoger Corman’s 1959 creature feature is fun once it gets going, but it takes a while to get to the wasp monster.Read More
Magic Mike’s Last Dance review: A middling threequel
April 7, 2023 | Matthew TurnerChanning Tatum and Salma Hayek Pinault stage a strip show in the West End in Steven Soderbergh’s middling Magic Mike threequel.Read More
Kill Boksoon: A stylish, entertaining thriller
April 1, 2023 | Matthew TurnerJeon Do-yeon plays a single mother balancing contract killing with raising a teenager in this stylish, entertaining Korean thriller.Read More
VOD film review: You Resemble Me
March 12, 2023 | Matthew TurnerDina Amer’s powerful debut feature depicts the radicalisation of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, who was wrongly labelled “Europe’s first female suicide bomber”.Read More
VOD film review: Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
March 10, 2023 | Matthew TurnerDirector: Pawo Choyning Dorji Cast: Sherab Dorji, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup Certificate: PG
Written and directed by Bhutan-born and US-educated filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji, this charming comedy-drama was nominated for the Best International Film Oscar last year. Essentially, … Read More
VOD film review: Arranged Marriage
February 14, 2023 | Matthew TurnerMegha Sandhu stars in this horror-comedy about a student who incurs the wrath of her family when she refuses to enter into an arranged marriage.Read More
Monster Movie Monday: Shakma (1990)
February 6, 2023 | Matthew TurnerAn escaped baboon chomps its way through medical students in this cheesy but surprisingly dark creature feature.Read More
Society of the Snow: A moving survival thriller
January 4, 2023 | Matthew TurnerJA Bayona directs this superbly made and powerfully moving survival thriller, based on the 1972 Andes flight disaster.
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VOD film review: Entergalactic
January 3, 2023 | Matthew TurnerA street artist falls for his neighbour in this unmissable animated drama from Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi.Read More
White Noise review: Uneven but entertaining
December 30, 2022 | Matthew TurnerAdam Driver and Greta Gerwig are terrific in Noah Baumbach’s uneven but entertaining adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.Read More